This is something that I've noticed over the last couple of decades+ and it's kinda bugged me.

It's the overuse of the term Oklahoma's Own. Channel 4 used to call themselves Oklahoma's Own News Channel 4. I think channel 9 now uses the Oklahoma's Own moniker. When the Heartland Flyer began it's run, there were billboards in OKC advertising Oklahoma's Own Heartland Flyer rail service. Any time the news stations talk about a famous person from Oklahoma it's always Oklahoma's Own Garth Brooks or Oklahoma's Own Carrie Underwood, Oklahoma's Own Toby Keith etc. Lately I've noticed on KREF that Ozarka sponsers one of the call-in lines and the copy is always read as "Oklahoma's Own Ozarka..."

To me, it just seems like an inferiority complex. Like we're so desperate for fame or acknowledgement that we have to label anything from Oklahoma as our own. It's ours. Not yours. You can't claim it. That just sounds small time to me.

For those of you that have lived or do live in other cities, have you ever noticed other cities/states doing this? Is this a common thing around the country? Am I being overly critical of this or does it really reek of small time inferiority?